@Sherri_Ingrey @ChasingWaterfalls
Worthless human beings? Human beings are the most valuable thing in the universe.
Nicholas Saint Alexander
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Faithful married man. conservative minded philosophical theist, Christian by faith, political Libertarian, but not particularly focused on politics, although I respect your politics
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@Sherri_Ingrey @ChasingWaterfalls
What makes him think he's not a useless human being, his big ego?
@Sherri_Ingrey @ChasingWaterfalls
Yes, he is clearly a psychopath
Perhaps, but I'm skeptical the technology is even possible, at least to that extreme.
A micro helium reactor might do the trick. And it might be possible to use tiny amounts of graphite encased uranium, just enough to power the plane for a few flights. The reactor could be shielded using specialized plastics, and boron. Then there is never enough nuclear fuel in the plane to cause a major nuclear accident. Just drop a few pellets into the reactor and off you go!
Nuclear would work to power an electric plane if you could build a small enough reactor.
Use the heat from the reactor to drive a high RPM sterling engine that charges a small battery bank that can power the plane for maybe an hour, and just keep topping it up, and bingo hybrid electric plane.
Unfortunately flying nuclear reactors won't likely get FAA clearance anytime soon 😂
There are likely a handful of retired engineers who could bring this tech back, but good luck with that.